Word: rumpledness
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Senatorial cynics dryly agreed last week that the world was safe, because New Hampshire's Charles William Tobey had it on his shoulders again. Senator Tobey, a somewhat skinny Atlas, is a rumpled, furious man with a vivid imagination and a hound-keen nose for trouble-a word indissolubly...
The cut of the Japanese Minister to Australia [TIME, March 31] clearly shows the extent to which the Japanese have aped American customs. Minister Kawai's rumpled pajama "tops" and neatly pressed "bottoms"
The Army and Navy custom of wearing civilian clothes while among civilians has brought down many a gibe on officers with rumpled pants, stringy cravats. Most of the gibing has been done at officers in Washington, where wearing uniforms except on unusual or ceremonial occasions is distinctly bad form. (The...
Last week Wendell Willkie returned to the U. S. from the British Isles and the war. At 8:05 one cold morning the Dixie Clipper, glittering in the bright morning sun, loomed over the Whitestone Bridge, came down for a perfect landing in the choppy water off New York'...
To awestruck newsmen in London, who noted his rumpled suit, his rumpled hair, his Willkie campaign necktie-a blue four-in-hand with white stripes spelling his name-he declared: "I have nothing to say except that I have had a fine passage over and that I am here." In...